Death in Venice And Other Stories by Thomas Mann

Death in Venice And Other Stories by Thomas Mann

One day, at dinner, Aschenbach notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his family in the same hotel. Soon his days begin to revolve around seeing this boy and he is too distracted to pay attention to the ominous rumours that have begun to circulate about disease spreading through the city.

The real theme is fading creativity and the search for inspiration..A deep and highly complex drama of the psyche * Financial Times *
This complex fin-de-siecle masterpiece...seems eerily to pre-echo the destructive decadence that would shortly shatter European civilisation itself * The Times *
Thomas Mann's story of obsession and spiritual malaise * Observer *
What Mann understands and laughs at, though it grips him, is the quasi-sexual attraction of beauty and philosophy...Death in Venice is one of the undisputed classics of contemporary European literature * Independent *
Mann's obsessive story explores the complex, haunted relationship between an ageing writer and a beautiful Polish boy * Express *

Thomas Mann (1875-1955) is widely regarded as the greatest German novelist of the twentieth century. His first novel, Buddenbrooks, was a huge success and led to a Nobel Prize in Literature. However, when the Nazis came to power, his works were blacklisted and burned and Mann was stripped of his citizenship. He spent the latter part of his life in exile in the United States and Switzerland. His other major novels include The Magic Mountain, Doctor Faustus and Joseph and His Brothers.

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ISBN 13	9780099428657
ISBN 10	0099428652
Title	Death in Venice And Other Stories
Author	Thomas Mann
Series	Vintage Classics Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2001-04-05
Number of pages	336
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